Art Show

We had an art show during the middle of the semester and for my contribution, I and another student worked out how to make our professor's program work with a multi-touch library in Processing. Our goal was to be able to push around the simulated fluid dynamics with multi-touch inputs using the TUIO library. This library works by getting the information over some tracking software that using the TUIO protocol. This can be for any type of hardware: wii remote, track pad, light sensor, etc. For our project we had a table that detected touches by detecting light fragmentation on a piece of acrylic glass. I did a lot of the programming for this assignment. Setting the table up for the art show was quite a task. The table basically fell apart on the way over and luckily we had a back up battery power supply for the computer. Also for the art show I entered my Visual Poetry assignment. We ended up having to buy apple VGA converters to run the programs because the Linux machines that we had were not capable of running them. I enjoyed being in charge of getting mine and two others' programs to run on one screen. It turned out pretty well in the end. I enjoyed my first art show experience.